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[D6130]

Clifton in Bristol is also the location of its city's zoo.

 

[Tetragon213]

Saltash also has a noteworthy Brunel-designed bridge.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Quethiock in Cornwall was also once under the jurisdiction of the St Germans Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Churches again -- North Hykeham, Lincolnshire (just south-west of Lincoln) also has a church dedicated to St. Hugh.

 

[John Griffiths]

North Hykeham is home to the Lincolnshire Road Transport Museum; Gaydon in Warwickshire is home to the British Motor Museum.

 

[Calthrop]

Brearton, North Yorkshire -- a little way north of Harrogate -- also has a pub called the Malt Shovel.

 

[D6130]

Brearton, North Yorkshire -- a little way north of Harrogate -- also has a pub called the Malt Shovel.

St John's church in Brearton was designed by James Pigott Pritchett, who also designed the magnificent grade 1-listed station building at Huddersfield in West Yorkshire.

 

[High Dyke]

Huddersfield was a centre of civil unrest during the Industrial Revolution. Luddites objected primarily to the rising popularity of automated textile equipment, threatening the jobs and livelihoods of skilled workers.

The Luddite movement began in Arnold, Nottinghamshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gotham in Nottinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Basford Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Hunstanton in Norfolk is another place: matters of different renderings in speech (different contexts, about each) re which, can make people quite irate; if they're people whose passions can run high about such things. Concerning Gotham: is the first syllable pronounced like "goat"; or like "got" (rhyming with "hot")? The Norfolk resort: some say it exactly as spelt, others say "Hunston". There's a "school of thought" here, according to which it's pretentious, affected people who say "Hunston"; sensible folk pronounce-as-spelt. (Also, some will tell us that the locals say "Hunston".)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sea Palling in Norfolk also suffered a death toll during the North Sea flood on 1953.

 

[Tetragon213]

Happisburgh also has an RNLI lifeboat station

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kessingland in Suffolk is also an east-coast settlement that is subject to coastal erosion.

 

[John Griffiths]

Kessingland was the location of a supposed sighting of a giant sea snake by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (who was an enthusiast for all sorts of esoteric woo) in 1906. Another mythical snake-like creature, the Lambton Worm, made a nuisance of itself in County Durham until slain at Worm Hill, Fatfield, now a district of Washington New Town.

 

[Calthrop]

Kessingland was the location of a supposed sighting of a giant sea snake by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (who was an enthusiast for all sorts of esoteric woo) in 1906. Another mythical snake-like creature, the Lambton Worm, made a nuisance of itself in County Durham until slain at Worm Hill, Fatfield, now a district of Washington New Town.

You'll be telling us next, that Nessie doesn't exist !

Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, also has a Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust reserve.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Kidwelly in Carmarthenshire also has connections to the tinplate industry.

 

[D6130]

Llansteffan in Carmarthenshire also has a large ruined medieval castle.

 

[Calthrop]

Llansteffan is the Welsh for "Saint Stephen". We are given to understand that this refers to neither the first martyr as per the New Testament, nor the sainted first king of Hungary; but to an associate of the better-known Saint Teilo (c. 500 -- c.560); who was reputedly a cousin, friend, and disciple of St. David, and laboured with him in the Welsh "vineyard". Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, is named after St. Teilo; and its parish church is dedicated to him.

 

[John Griffiths]

Llandeilo's rugby team, Llandeilo RFC, was one of the founding members of the Welsh Rugby Union in 1881. Another such was Pontypool RFC.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llanfrechna in Monmouthshire also lies on the line of the River Lwyd.

 

[Calthrop]

Llanfrechna in Monmouthshire also lies on the line of the River Lwyd.

Is Llanfrechfa meant here? I can find no "Llanfrechna"; and the "f" version, agrees with the above. Assuming that it is Llanfrechfa; Cottenham, Cambridgeshire -- five or six miles north of Cambridge -- also has a church dedicated to All Saints.

 

[John Griffiths]

An ancestor of US President Calvin Coolidge was born in Cottenham. Another one - Samuel Appleton - was born in Little Waldingfield in Suffolk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Longridge in Lancashire also has a church that is dedicated to St Lawrence.

 

[Calthrop]

Salesbury, Lancashire, also lies on the B6245 road -- some five miles south-east of Longridge.

 

[John Griffiths]

Salesbury's pub is called The Bonny Inn. This appears to be a unique name, but there is a Bonnybank Inn at Leven in Fife.

 

[Calthrop]

Leven, Fife: has a namesake settlement in the shape of Leven, East Yorkshire -- half-way between Beverley and Hornsea.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Aldbrough in the East Riding of Yorkshire was also once administered by the Holderness Wapentake.

 

[Calthrop]

Aldbrough has a pub called the Elm Tree. So did, until very recently, Langton Herring in Dorset (a little way north-west of Weymouth): L.H.'s hostelry closed, sadly, in 2023 -- though folk are campaigning for its reopening.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sandwick in Orkney also has a church that is dedicated to St Peter.

 

[Calthrop]

This is wicked of me; but Sandwick has a name-type counterpart, save for one letter only, at the very other end of the British Isles -- Sandwich, Kent.